Guidance

Writing tip: The belief that the 1st draft must be good makes working on it an intimidating prospect that often leads to paralysis. So let the 1st draft be junk; it should be purely about getting from start to finish, nothing more. You really write the piece when you rewrite it.

Generic ambition will give you anxiety. Specific ambition will give you direction.

To feel creatively and intellectually alive, you have to stop mindlessly consuming the Internet and start mindfully curating it.

We fear our highest possibilities (as well as our lowest ones). We are generally afraid to become that which we can glimpse in our most perfect moments, under the most perfect conditions, under conditions of greatest courage. We enjoy and even thrill to the godlike possibilities we see in ourselves in such peak moments. And yet we simultaneously sh... See more

describe the cosmic humor that's hidden in the problem you're currently struggling with